FSU heads to Fort Lauderdale for Orange Bowl prep

11:22 PM,
Dec. 25, 2012

Written by

Ira Schoffel
Tallahassee Democrat

With three assistant football coaches leaving for new jobs, this hasn't been a typical first few weeks of bowl preparation for the Florida State football team.

Defensive ends coach D.J. Eliot, who is leaving to become defensive coordinator at Kentucky, has been piecing together the Seminoles' Orange Bowl game plan and is expected to call plays on New Year's Day against Northern Illinois.

Defensive coordinator Mark Stoops, who was introduced earlier this month as Kentucky's next head coach, is helping with game-planning as well. And running backs coach Eddie Gran, who has taken the ...